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Shane Smith is digging through the newly released UAP files ahead of his interview with "The Age of Disclosure" director @Dan_Farah
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.@shanesmith30 asks @natesilver538: How do we get back to a system where people vote and their elected officials actually represent them?
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“It looks like a pretty favorable blue environment.”
@NateSilver538 tells @shanesmith30 the conditions heading into the midterms: $4.40 gas, a war with Iran, and a presidential approval rating that’s starting to look like George W. Bush’s in his second term.
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“What we have all around the world is a backlash to incumbent parties.”
@NateSilver538 tells @ShaneSmith30 why growing frustration with the party in power could create problems for Democrats in traditionally blue states like Minnesota—even as Republicans face a national backlash of their own.
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“It’s a pretty easy scam.”
@NateSilver538 says prediction markets have created a new incentive for fake pollsters to publish misleading data, move the markets, and cash out.
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“This map kind of looks a little bit like it did in 2016.”
@NateSilver538 explains what happens if the polls overstate Democrats again. He says the Senate would go from lean Democrat to lean Republican.
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Redistricting and gerrymandering get used like they mean the same thing. They don’t.
Every 10 years the U.S. takes a census, and district lines get redrawn to match where people actually live. That part is routine. Gerrymandering is when whoever draws those lines uses the process to help one party over another.
Who does the drawing depends on the state. In some it’s the state legislature. Others hand it to an independent commission of people who aren’t elected, and some use a mix of the two.
Lauren Woodman of @USAFacts explains how it works.
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The United States is committing “superpower suicide,” says historian @TimothyDSnyder.
“I'm having a hard time thinking of cases where a great power, an empire—a superpower, has self-destructed with such speed.”
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Historian @TimothyDSnyder: “I think of AI as artificial stupidity. It's creating a situation artificially in which humans become less capable.”
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“We're producing increasingly expensive systems that take more and more time to build… You can't stop a drone swarm with a battleship.”
Historian @TimothyDSnyder says we have failed to learn any lessons from Ukraine and Iran—and that Trump and Hegseth are making it worse.
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Historian @TimothyDSnyder on why he believes Trump admires Putin—and sees America as a "scrapyard" to exploit rather than a country to serve.
“And it's disgusting, but it's also humiliating if you're an American.”
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“I think Trump is hoping the Iranians blow something up.”
Historian @TimothyDSnyder on why he thinks Donald Trump sees a potential Iranian attack as a political win ahead of the midterms.
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According to Nevada Secretary of State @CiscoForNevada, safeguards are already in place to prevent the kind of voter fraud some politicians claim is happening. So why has the idea of stolen elections persisted?
President Trump has repeatedly criticized mail-in voting. But who actually uses it?
Nevada Secretary of State @CiscoForNevada explains why mail ballots are popular in some of the state’s reddest, most rural counties.